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Basket
no date
(Maker) Miwok, Native American (Maker) Monache, Native American
Grass and pigment dye
Overall: 4 1/4 × 15 7/8 inches (10.8 × 40.3 cm)
Baskets
Indigenous Americas
Gift of Clara A. Avery, 1884
72.444
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Markings
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Sticker: Yosemite Valley; Gift of Clara A. Avery; California Indian Basket; 9.19.19; 1884, May 25, Taken from a deserted acom[?] cache
Provenance
Clara A. Avery
1884 or 1919-present, given to and accessioned 1972 by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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possibly Miwok, Native American; possibly Monache, Native American, Basket, no date, grass and pigment dye. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Clara A. Avery, 1884, 72.444.
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